Penelope From The Odyssey Quotes & Sayings

The real price of every thing, what every thing really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it. - Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force. - Karl Marx, speech, 1856 Dreams are not so different from deeds as some may think. All the deeds of men are only dreams at first. And in the end, their deeds dissolve into dreams. - Theodor Herzl, Old New Land, 1902 — Mark Kurlansky

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent. — Lord Dunsany

Fact: life is a giant classroom and every day is an opportunity to learn something new.
Fact: you have to be prepared for pop quizzes, because they can come from anywhere or anyone.
Also fact: I wished I'd called in sick today.
What I learned from professor Frosty?
How to properly boost cars. The guy could do wicked things with a single piece of wire.
"I'm a criminal now," I lamented as we soared down the highway. Killing in self defense didn't count.
"I'm an accomplice. A thief."
"Actually," he said smoothly, "you're a freelance valet. All you're doing is moving a car from one location to another. There's nothing wrong with that, now, is there? — Gena Showalter

Reading ought to mean understanding; writing ought to mean knowing something; believing ought to mean comprehending; when you desire a thing, you will have to take it; when you demand it, you will not get it; and when you are experienced, you ought to be useful to others. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids. — Gorgias

When you go inside something, then you are not with you. You are in the hands of somebody else, and you don't know what they will do with you. — Najibullah Quraishi

For a moment he was lost in the scent and the closeness of her, the grief and self-loathing vanished by this new intimacy. He knew he should tell her to stop, that this was inappropriate, but found himself too intoxicated to care. — Anthony Ryan

Every unhappy family is periodically ransacked by joy. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. — Jim Henson

In a family, no matter how dysfunctional she is, when one member loses, when one becomes smaller, all lose, all end up becoming smaller. — Angelos Michalopoulos

They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them. — Alexander McCall Smith

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown. — Charli XCX